One Newspaper Actually Tells Parents To Chill Out Over MySpace
from the but-does-that-sell-papers? dept
While we've been pointing out all the scare stories being written up in the media about MySpace, it would appear that at least one newspaper isn't playing along. Petrea Mitchell writes in to let us know that the Oregonian actually had a much more balanced article about kids online (which was apparently a cover story, above the fold in the paper edition), which basically says what many of us have been saying all along: the internet and these services aren't the problem. Parents need to relax, but also to prepare their kids for basic online life. As MIT Prof Henry Jenkins (whose reasonable views on these things we've discussed before) notes: "Being a good parent is being aware of what kids are doing online, engaging in their activities, understanding the value of those activities, and helping them acquire skills that will allow safer participation in those activities." With so much fear mongering going on, it's nice to see a more reasonable article get published.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Myspace sux
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MySpace Information you need to know
http://www.intermixed up.com/
Read these 2 links very carefully
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Re: Myspace sux
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I don't have any suggestions for a solution, other than to highlight the obvious. As the site gets more popular, the problem is likely to get worse. It's gotten to the point that I scan the comments at Digg less and less. It would be nice if there were some way to nip this in the bud here at Techdirt. (hopefully without getting as complex as the modding at Slashdot)
For all the hotheads that may be reading this - no one cares if a post pisses you off. Either add to the discussion or move on to the next post.
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I hope Myspace soon suffers the same fate as Geocities.
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Re: Myspace sux
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Other Papers
http://getout.amarillo.com/content/outfront/021006_breathless.shtml
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Why use MySpace?
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wow
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Yo man
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Arguing how crappy Myspace is...
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However, I did mention and try to argue that as many requests for help getting javascripts to work on Myspace on the web-design/dev coding forum I frequent (dynamicdrive.com), which was ignored
also, I mentioned that virtually every page you find on it looks like total shit, its as if nobody ever heard of using tables for layout with relative 100% width attributes - he tried showing me a few pages that did look nice, but thats only about 10 out of a thousand, and most of em are for rock bands that 1) realize Myspace is popular with teenagers that browse nothing but myspace, and 2) are so cheap as to go for a free host like myspace - and yet again these arguements were ignored...
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Thanks MySpace!
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myspace
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i luv myspace
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myspace isnt bad
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